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EDGE OF REALITY

Speaking behind a podium bearing the Ukrainian state emblem, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in his now signature green attire, calls on his soldiers to lay down their weapons and return to their families.

The one-minute clip is a deepfake, the term for a sophisticated hoax that uses artificial intelligence to create a phoney image, most commonly fake videos of people.

What unfolded next was one of the latest episodes in the infowar that has accompanied the Russia-Ukraine conflict, a war being waged across social media, via satellite images of

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